贾雷德·戴蒙德,加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校医学院生理学教授以生理学开始其科学生涯,进而研究演化生物学和生物地理学,被选为美国艺术与科学院、国家科学院院士、美国哲学学会会员,曾获得麦克阿瑟基金会研究员基金及全国地理学会伯尔奖,在《发现》、《博物学》、《自然》和《地理》杂志上发表过论文200多篇。
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, "Guns, Germs, and Steel" is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, "Guns, Germs and Steel" encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers.
作者的观点与黄仁宇的类似。 1环境差异决定了当时的历史选择,从而对后来事件产生了决定性的影响。 2 各大洲的环境是不同的,从而有了不同的机遇。 3亚欧大陆的横向轴线,非洲与美洲的纵向轴线,以及澳洲的独立,影响了传播。 4环境差异决定了当时的历史选择,从而对后来事...
评分5个玩家选择了一张超大的随机地图,游戏开始了 开局: 中国运气极好,主城边上要矿有矿、要树有树、要地有地,很快就升级了主城进入青铜时代,还种上了地。中国不停出农民,人口增长很快,不久又进入了铁器时代。 欧洲运气也不错,不缺什么资源,虽然发展没中国快,但也第二...
评分 评分 评分不同种群人类进化,不是我干掉你全家,就是你团灭了我。如果有人要胜出的话,为啥不是你?这是一个问题。 强弱,不见得,150多号人,可以干掉8万乌合之众。俘虏了他们头领,而且讹诈的巨大的财富,最后食言杀害了头领。 不可思议,却是真实。然而传奇背后作者的逻辑分析,更是...
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评分对人类历史的理解又多了一个维度
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评分一年前的这个时候,每天做完实验在地铁上读的书。
评分自己看了一半,难以遏制的在心里批驳作者的各种佐证,感觉自己不适合看这种半科普性质的书,太累。。。虽然最后还是用开车的时间在Audible上听完了。。。
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